MaggZ is an award-winning choreographer, director and performance artist of Chinese-minority / Tibetan descent - working across directing, choreography, movement direction and live performances. MaggZ’s practice is interested in constantly expanding and reinventing the possibilities of movement and dance through site-responsive visual arts, architecture, screen, music and fashion and community-building.
Selected Clients + Collaborators:
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, ACCA, Asia TOPA, Australia Fashion Week, Critical Path, Dancehouse, Immigration Museum, Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne Fashion Week, Museum of Contemporary Art and Oaxaca Culture, Mpavilion, National Youth Council Singapore, Next Wave, Nike Sportswear, Nowness Asia, O Days Festival Copenhagen, Performance Space, Phoenix Central Park, Rising Festival, Soft Centre Festival, Soho House Berlin, Sydney Opera House and Pocoapoco Oaxaca.
Education + Recognition:
MaggZ is trained in ballet and now specialised in w_acking - a freestyle dance originated in 1970s LA from the Latinx and African American queer community, predominantly involving arm movements. MaggZ completed their BA with double majors in French and Japanese, MA in education at University of Melbourne.
Founder of (nexus), Young Artistic Directorate at Next Wave Melbourne, producer / performance art consultant at Collide24 Berlin, recipient of the Young Creative Awards Green Room Australia
Selected Clients + Collaborators:
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, ACCA, Asia TOPA, Australia Fashion Week, Critical Path, Dancehouse, Immigration Museum, Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne Fashion Week, Museum of Contemporary Art and Oaxaca Culture, Mpavilion, National Youth Council Singapore, Next Wave, Nike Sportswear, Nowness Asia, O Days Festival Copenhagen, Performance Space, Phoenix Central Park, Rising Festival, Soft Centre Festival, Soho House Berlin, Sydney Opera House and Pocoapoco Oaxaca.
Education + Recognition:
MaggZ is trained in ballet and now specialised in w_acking - a freestyle dance originated in 1970s LA from the Latinx and African American queer community, predominantly involving arm movements. MaggZ completed their BA with double majors in French and Japanese, MA in education at University of Melbourne.
Founder of (nexus), Young Artistic Directorate at Next Wave Melbourne, producer / performance art consultant at Collide24 Berlin, recipient of the Young Creative Awards Green Room Australia